Reading Shakespeare's characters: rhetoric, ethics, and identity
Although current theory has discredited the idea of a coherent, transcendent self, Shakespeare's characters still make themselves felt as a presence for readers and viewers alike. Confronting this paradox, Christy Desmet explores the role played by rhetoric in fashioning and representing Shakes...
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| Summary: | Although current theory has discredited the idea of a coherent, transcendent self, Shakespeare's characters still make themselves felt as a presence for readers and viewers alike. Confronting this paradox, Christy Desmet explores the role played by rhetoric in fashioning and representing Shakespearean character. She draws on classical and Renaissance texts, as well as on the work of such twentieth-century critics as Kenneth Burke and Paul de Man, bringing classical, Renaissance, and contemporary rhetoric into fruitful collision. Desmet redefines the nature of character by analyzing the function of character criticism and by developing a new perspective on Shakespearean character. She shows how rhetoric shapes character within the plays and the way characters are "read." She also examines the relationship between technique and theme by considering the connections between rhetorical representation and dramatic illusion and by discussing the relevance of rhetorical criticism to issues of gender. Works analyzed include Hamlet, Cymbeline, King John, Othello, The Winter's Tale, King Lear, Venus and Adonis, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well. |
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Characters
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Rhetoric, Ethics,
and Identity
CHRISTY DESMET
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
AMHERST
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 3
ONE
Th Observ d of All Observers: Reading Character
in Theory and Practice 10
TWO
Characterizing Shakespeare s Readers: Falstaff and
the Motives of Character Criticism 35
THREE
Earning a Place in the Story: Ethos and Epideictic
in Cymbeline 59
FOUR
Not True, to Be True: Hyperbole and Judgment in Othello,
King John, and The Winter s Tale 84
FIVE
To See Feelingly: Vision, Voice, and Dramatic
Illusion in King Lear 112
six
Who Is t Can Read a Woman?: Rhetoric and Gender
in Venus and Adonis, Measure for Measure, and
All s Well That Ends Well 134
Epilogue 164
Notes 169
Index 205
V l l
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